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Stryker Corporation
No equity stake in another company appears in Stryker Corporation's filings. That is the sourced answer, not a hole in the research.
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The full register, from 13F filings
The Register tab above is hand research: a dozen holders, each traced to the filing it came from. This asks the same question of the whole market for the quarter ended 31-mar-2026, where 2,267 managers reported a position. Broad where the research is deep, and shallow in the ways a 13F always is.
2,267 managers reported a position, together holding 299.1m shares, or 78.0% of the company. The 40 largest are listed.
Built from 13F filings, which report US listed, long, US custodied positions only. A register from this source is a floor rather than a level: a holder's true position can be far larger, as BlackRock's ASML stake shows at 1.28m shares in a 13F against 26.3m in its 13G/A. Holdings held through derivatives, outside US custody, or below a manager's reporting obligation do not appear. Where a holder is marked as a family, its total sums several separate filing entities and describes something no single filing describes; the constituent entities and their share counts are listed so the total can be checked. That roll-up can legitimately exceed the family's own Schedule 13G, because a 13G is filed by one legal entity: Vanguard reports Alphabet through ten advisory entities, and The Vanguard Group Inc itself reported zero after its January 2026 disaggregation.
What a reader needs to know to read these numbers
- Stryker does not file Form 13F. Its complete EDGAR filing history (submissions JSON for CIK 0000310764, checked 17 August 2026) contains no 13F-HR or 13F-NT of any vintage, consistent with it not acting as an institutional investment manager.
- The holdings list is empty and that is the sourced finding, not a gap. The FY2025 Form 10-K (period ended 31 December 2025, filed 11 February 2026) and the Q2 FY2026 Form 10-Q (period ended 30 June 2026, filed 31 July 2026) were both fetched and searched in full for 'equity method', 'equity investment', 'non-marketable', 'measurement alternative', 'unrealized', 'joint venture', 'strategic investment', 'venture', 'investee', 'ownership interest', 'collaboration agreement', 'minority interest' and 'corporate venture capital': none appear. The only equity-adjacent language found is (a) mutual funds and debt securities inside a deferred-compensation marketable-securities portfolio, (b) a pension-plan asset-allocation target of 26-32 percent 'equity securities' inside the pension footnote, which is a plan-trust allocation category, not a Stryker-owned stake in a named company, and (c) a single unquantified mention of 'other investments' inside the generic financial-instruments list in the accounting-policy note, with no dollar figure or counterparty attached. Stryker grows through outright, wholly owned acquisitions, most recently Inari Medical (closed 2025), rather than minority stakes.
- Stryker has a single class of common stock, $0.10 par value, one vote per share (10-Q cover page, 30 June 2026). There is no dual-class structure.
- The Stryker family story: Ronda E. Stryker, a director since 1984 and granddaughter of founder Dr. Homer Stryker, beneficially owns 15,355,273 shares (4.0 percent) per the 2026 proxy's own beneficial-ownership table. Unlike Broadcom's or Walmart's outside-the-group family-vehicle pattern, her holding sits directly INSIDE the 'Executive officers and directors as a group (21 persons)' row (17,778,869 shares, 4.6 percent), because she is a sitting director captured in that same table. The proxy's footnote 6 flags that 13,120,495 of her 15,351,668 owned shares carry only shared, not sole, voting and dispositive power, the closest hint at a family trust or foundation structure, but the proxy neither names a separate vehicle nor gives it its own row, so no additional family holding outside the officers group could be sourced.
- John W. Brown, Stryker's Chairman and CEO from 1977 to 2003, is the third-largest disclosed holder (20,056,245 shares, 5.2 percent) via a 2021 Schedule 13G/A. He is not part of the Stryker founding family and is not a current officer or director, so his row is separate from, and does not roll into, the officers and directors group.
- Vanguard and BlackRock disagreement, recorded rather than resolved. The register uses each manager's own most recent Form 13F-HR: Vanguard 33,907,291 shares as of 31 December 2025 (Vanguard filed Form 13F-NT, a notice rather than a holdings report, for the quarters ended 31 March 2026 and 30 June 2026 under CIK 0000102909); BlackRock 27,414,742 shares as of 30 June 2026. Stryker's 2026 proxy reports smaller, older figures for both, sourced to Schedule 13G/A filings from early 2024 covering ownership as of late 2023: Vanguard 31,149,173 shares (8.1 percent) as of 29 December 2023, and BlackRock 24,924,572 shares (6.5 percent) as of 31 December 2023.
- Percentages for the 13F rows are computed by this research against 383,573,046 shares outstanding on 30 June 2026 (10-Q cover page), except the Vanguard row, which uses 382,688,675 shares outstanding on 31 January 2026 (FY2025 10-K cover page), the closest available count to Vanguard's 31 December 2025 reporting date.
- The proxy's own beneficial-ownership percentages (Ronda E. Stryker's 4.0 percent, the officers-and-directors group's 4.6 percent, and John W. Brown's 5.2 percent) are taken as filed rather than recomputed; the proxy states they assume continued ownership as of 28 February 2026 against the 9 March 2026 record-date share count of 382,984,253.
- Market capitalisation of $130.11 billion is the rounded figure published on the source page as of 14 August 2026. It is not used as the basis for any percentage calculation in this file.
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Recorded rather than filled in. Each of these is a place where a number could have been invented and was not.
- Whether any family trust, foundation, or LLC vehicle holds Stryker shares on behalf of the broader Stryker family (descendants of founder Dr. Homer Stryker) outside Ronda E. Stryker's own beneficial-ownership row. The 2026 proxy's 5-percent-owner table lists only Vanguard, BlackRock, and John W. Brown; no family vehicle crosses the Schedule 13D/G 5 percent disclosure threshold, and an independent EDGAR full-text search for Stryker-family-linked 13D/G filers was not completed within the time budget.
- John W. Brown's current holding. His 20,056,245-share, 5.2 percent figure is sourced only to a Schedule 13G/A filed 9 February 2021 reporting data as of 31 December 2020; no more recent 13G/A or 13D for him was located on EDGAR, so his present-day position is unconfirmed.
- The identity, size, and counterparty of 'other investments' mentioned once in the FY2025 10-K's financial-instruments accounting-policy note. No dollar figure or breakdown accompanies the phrase anywhere in the 10-K or the Q2 FY2026 10-Q.
- Any equity position Stryker may have taken during its fiscal Q3 2026. The Q3 FY2026 10-Q (quarter ending on or about 30 September 2026) was not yet filed as of 17 August 2026, per the EDGAR submissions feed for CIK 0000310764.
- 13F positions for other large active managers (e.g. Capital Group, T. Rowe Price, State Street's smaller peers) beyond the seven named in the research brief were not checked; the register is limited to the requested seven managers plus the proxy layer.